Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2023-Apr-24

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Sorry for missing a meeting with a few of "my own" bug reports...


On 24/04/2024 21:58, Heiko Tietze wrote:
>   * Want indication of whether a master slide is in use or not
>     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160403
>     + MSO Powerpoints shows the number of slides in a tooltip (Stephane)
>     + additional boolean indication would be nice (Eyal)
>     + tooltip sounds good and is not harmful (John)
>     + not much useful since "Delete Master" is only available if the
>       slide master is not in use (Cor)

... but you only see that if you right-click the master. The boolean
indication suggestion would make you aware of this about all visible
masters at once. But I agree with the low priority.

>     => no objection, low priority
>
>   * When right-clicking a font family combo-box, offer font meta-data
>     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152487
>     + unclear use case and much likely off-topic being available in
>       font management tools (Heiko)

I will have to make the use case clearer on the bug page. Again, sorry
for not being around to make that case.


>     + info dialog sounds good but rather via special characters or
>       in the character properties dialog (Stuart)
>     + only use case is compatibility with some other font (John)

That's an interesting use case, but not what I had in mind.


>       + likely not part of the meta data
>     + the Internet returns all search results (Cor)

The point is to help the user select an item on a list, while the list
is open - so that the user doesn't have to search for information
elsewhere (e.g. the Internet).

 >     => idea does not find support; WF>
>   * Make possible 2 or more impress in fullscreen each on a dedicated
>     monitor AND each seekable independently with user-defined hotkeys
>     per each file
>     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160242

First of all, I really think this bug report should have been split up
into several ones - and the issues were sort of mapped on the bug page:

A. run two presentations full-screen at same time (on two monitors)
B. Keyboard-navigate in two running full-screen presentation (i.e.
different shortcuts)
C. Same as B, but arbitrary number of presentations
D. Support per-presentation navigation shortcut choices, persisted in
the ODP file

 >     + start Impress twice (Stephane)

When you start Impress twice you're still left with just the one
instance running. I guess you can force a second instance (with a
different profile folder perhaps?) but even then, IIANM, Impress is
"imperialistic" when in Full-Screen mode. Op claimed this doesn't work
right now.

> workflow is supported with a third   monitor (John)

1. Is it? Can you elaborate on the bug page?
2. What about two monitors?

 >     + too niche, better suited for an extension (Stephane, Sahil)

I partially disagree, considering the breakdown above:

A: Not so niche, in my opinion. Occasionally you want to show slides
from different presentations on different monitors - without having
combined them into a multi-monitor-targeting presentation (do we even
have that?). Happened to me already.

B: If Alt-Tab worked (which we can't know, since A is not possible yet),
then this would be kind of niche.

C, D: That's the niche part.


 >     => WF

Disagree!

It looks like (some of) the ask changes app behavior rather than
enhancing it. The per-file shortcuts sounds like extension material to
me though.

Suggest breakup instead then INVALID (or MOVED) on this one. I would say

A - NEW
B - UNCONFIRMED (or LATER?)
C, D - WONTFIX